To­co-born Daneil Williams and Fa­bi­en Whit­field had to set­tle for sev­enth spot when the sev­enth and fi­nal leg of the 2015 NORCE­CA Con­ti­nen­tal Beach Vol­ley­ball Cir­cuit end­ed at Cour­land Her­itage Park, Tur­tle Beach, To­ba­go, yes­ter­day.

The top T&T pair of Williams and Whit­field, who en­tered the tour­na­ment on the back of two straight bronze medal fin­ish­es, won their play­off by de­fault from USA-A's Ja­cob Gibb and Casey Pat­ter­son 21-0, 21-0.

Ear­li­er on in their fifth to eighth place semi­fi­nal, Whit­field and Williams went un­der to two-time win­ners on the tour this year, Cu­ba-A's Ni­val­do D�az/Ser­gio Gonz�lez 12-21, 16-21 while Guatemala Mois�s Reyes and Er­ick Gar­ri­do won by de­fault from Gibb and Pat­ter­son as well.

On Sat­ur­day in the quar­ter­fi­nal, Williams' and Whit­field's hopes of a third straight podi­um fin­ish were dashed by Cu­ba-B's Karel­ll Pina and Daisel Que­sa­da 16-21, 14-21.

In the oth­er quar­ter­fi­nals, Mex­i­co-A pair and reign­ing Pan Amer­i­can Games cham­pi­ons Lom­bar­do On­tiveros and Juan Vir­gen

bat­tled past Gibb and Pat­ter­son 28-26, 21-17; Cana­da-B's Grant O'Gor­man and Sam Ped­low oust­ed Guatemala's Reyes and Gar­ri­do 21-9, 21-11 while USA-B's Phil Dal­hauss­er and Nichola Lu­ce­na beat D�az and Gonz�lez in two straight sets 21-15 and 21-12.

In the semi­fi­nals, O'Gor­man and Ped­low ral­lied past On­tiveros and Vir­gen 18-21, 21-16, 16-14 to set up a North Amer­i­can fi­nal against pre-tour­na­ment favourite's Dal­hauss­er, a gold medal win­ner at the Bei­jing Olympics in 2008 and 2010 World Cham­pi­on and his part­ner Lu­ce­na. Dal­hauss­er and Lu­ce­na had on­ly re­cent­ly de­feat­ed Pina and Que­sa­da, 21-15, 21-11.

T&T-B pair of Si­mon Blake and Col­in Bernard were 13th af­ter com­ing from be­hind to beat El Sal­vador's Car­los Es­co­bar and David Var­gas 15-21, 21-17, 15-9 while T&T-C's Kersen Trim and Kevin James were 20th af­ter a 7-21, 18-21 loss to St Lu­cians Agustin Faulkn­er and Joseph Cler­cent

Mean­while the lo­cal women's pair of La Teisha "Chucky" Joseph and Ap­phia Glas­gow fin­ished 12th from 20 teams. Com­ing up against Ja­maica's Danielle Per­ry and Kai Wright in the 11th place bat­tle, Joseph and Glas­gow who on Sat­ur­day just missed out on ad­vanc­ing to the quar­ter­fi­nals, were beat­en 10-21, 14-21.

T&T's oth­er team in the women's tour­na­ment, Ayana Dyette/Ma­li­ka David­son en­joyed a bet­ter fin­ish, beat­ing Cay­man Is­lands' Jes­si­ca Wolfend­en and Ste­fa­nia Gan­dolfi 24-22, 23-21 for 13th.

Last night, in the gold medal match, USA-A's Lau­ren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat came up against Cana­da-B's Jamie Broder and Kristi­na Val­jas.

This af­ter Fendrick and Sweat hum­bled Cu­ba-A's Lian­ma Flo­res and Leila Mart�nez, 21-10, 21-18 in their semi­fi­nal while Broder and Val­jas got the bet­ter of de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons and coun­try­women, vs Cana­da-A's Melis­sa Hu­mana-Pare­desn and Tay­lor Pishcke 21-14, 14-21, 15-8.

On Sat­ur­day night in the quar­ter­fi­nals, Fendrick and Sweat dumped Cos­ta Ri­cans Yu­liana Gonz�lez and Eu­ge­nia Ram�rez 21-10, 21-12; Broder and Val­jas beat Cu­ba-B's Yani­ley­dis Sanchez and Lid­i­an­ny Echevarr�a) 21-11, 21-17;

Hu­mana-Pare­des and Pishcke out­last­ed USA-B's Jen­nifer Kessy and Emi­ly Day 21-14, 22-24, 15-13, and Flo­res and Mart�nez over­came Mex­i­co-B's Clau­dia R�os and Glo­ria San­toyo 16-21, 21-17, 15-8.

The third place play­off as well as the fifth placed match­es al­so took place last night.